The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-07-08

! Messrs Thos. Drennen and Samuel
j. Keys, of the board of trustees OF
Ipoor for Cecil county, and DR.. John
H. lamar, secretary of the county
board of health, this week visited an
insane asylum at Media for the pur.
pose of getting information regard
ing the management of asyiums
Our new asylum is about to be occu.
pied by the INDECENT insane from the
county now confined in State asylums.
Mr.. Lee Terry left Coatsville, Pa,
at $50 A. NJ. on Sunday last, on a
bicycle and arrived at "Southamp-
ton," the residence of John Ham
mersmith, Esq, near Rising Sun, at
IL O'Clock the same day, ride of
IS miles. He dismounted three times
on the route. He proposes making
trip to Washington, D. c., on the
same nag, at an early day.
George Atkinson, of Chestertown.
has a copper axe 81 inches long, 4
wide and / of an inch thick; and also
a spear or dart II inches long, 2 wide
and in the centre about / of an inch
thick. The spear is conceived, with
both edges and point sharp. The axe
is sharp also. These instruments
were plowed up last spring at the
head of Still Pond Creek, Kent
county. Wonder where the Indians
procured their copper.
j. G. Bird of Rising Sun has re.
ceiyed patent on his celebrated
riding or sulky cultivator. The pat
ent was granted July 9Th. The pap.
ers received from the patent office
at Washington comprises five splend.
id drawings of his machine showing
the cultivator from different points
and its separate parts. This farm
implement stands at the head of it's
class and offers grand opportunity
as nucleus for a stock company TO
build up large business in this town.
Preparing for fall trade. A large
invoice of wall paper in white and gilt
will arrive next week at E. r. But
'fington's, making decidedly the
largest stock we ever carried.
William S. Potter, late of this
county, and who has been a tempo
rary clerk in the Baltimore Custom
House for some time, was appointed
storekeeper in that institution on
Friday last, in place of Major E R.
Petherbridge. Petherbridge used to
be famous politician in We olden
time and grog boss at caucuses and
conventions.
The order of June 21st curtailing
the mail route from North East to
Calvert, beginning at Bay View and
omiting Mechanics Valley and North
East, has, upon receipt of protest
from citizens, been changed by the
Postof1ice Department so as to omit
Mechanics Valley and embrace Les
lie. This restores the original line
from North East through to Calvert,
except Mechanics Valley, which will
be supplied from the Philadelphia
Division of the B. & o. Railroad.
The Mt. Zoar dusky damsels appear
to have fallen from the higher estate
of their ancestors, John Berry and
Benjamin Brown were both owners
of farms and much respected citizens
of that neighborhood in their day.
The two females mentioned in the
following extract from the Elkton
correspondent of the Baltimore Amer
ican Wednesday, are granddaughter
of those worthy parents: BERTHE and
Bessie Brown, two young colored
girls, we've committed to Jail yester-
day, charged with attempting to cut
the thr oat of colored woman named
Berry, near Conowingo, on Friday
last. They were admitted to bail to.
day.
A Good Price for Land.